PPT-The Age of Enlightenment

Mrs Short Hilliard Davidson High School World Studies The Enlightenment Enlightenment thinkers believed all institutions should follow natural laws to produce the ideal society The ideas of the Enlightenment . What exciting conclusion did philosophers reach during the Enlightenment?. . Reason. could be used to solve all human problems.. Thomas Hobbes. . •English thinker, wrote views of government in . Sapere. . Aude. !. Dare to know!. - Immanuel Kant (1784). One day, Bossuet. The next, Voltaire. Bishop . Bossuet, . Politics drawn from Holy Scripture . (late 17. th. c.). The grounds of . authority: God, Bible, King. Text pages 518-525. World History Standard 13- Examine the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the world view of Europeans. . b. Identify the major ideas of the Enlightenment from the writings of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau and their relationship to politics & society. . Enlightenment. is man's emergence from his self-imposed . mental immaturity. . This immaturity is . the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. . This immaturity is . self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and . Constructing a New Paradigm of Man and Society . Mr. Daniel Lazar. Lecture Outline . Operational Definition. The Road to Enlightenment. The State of Nature. Enlightened Governance. Enlightened. Economics. John Locke. 3 concepts of . gov’t. :. Consent of the . goverened. a social contract between a fair . gov’t. & responsible citizens. right to revolution. Locke believed Property was the most . Jonathan . Dewald. , . Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Peter Hamilton. , ‘The Enlightenment and the Birth of Social Science’. Chris Harman, . A People’s History of the World. The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. Late 1600s-1700s: An intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment began in Europe. Later a religious movement known as the Great Awakening started in the Colonies . Dr. Charles Walton. History 172 – Modern France. Sapere. . Aude. !. Dare to know!. Immanuel . Kant (1784). Kant. Enlightenment is man’s release from self-incurred tutelage.. ‘One day, thinking like Bossuet. “The Enlightenment is a belief in the ability of the human mind and human enterprise to change the political, social, and economic framework of the world for the better”. Begins with Scientific Revolution; Questioning the world around. . AP Euro. Unit 4.1. I. The Scientific Revolution. Medieval view of the world. . 1. Primarily religious and theological. . 2. Political theory based on “divine right”. . 3. Society governed by Church views and practices. By: Irmarie Alvira & . Aja. Goode. AP World History. October 5, 2010. Age of Enlightenment. 1. Who: Philosophical rationalists René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, political philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, and skeptical thinkers in France such as Pierre Bayle. Enlightenment: Key Ideas. Rationalism: All truths must be arrived at through logical, critical thinking, and none should be accepted on faith or authority alone.. Science: Scientific methods could be used to examine the human world as well as the natural world to discover the laws of human society as they had discovered the laws of the physical world.. Lecture 2: . Historiography 2018/19. The question of human agency and human experience? . The question of historical change and what causes change?. The question of scale. The relationship between ‘particulars’ and ‘universals’ or, to frame it otherwise, between historical ‘facts’ and their wider meaning. .